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VH1: Do Something Awards at 9pm
SYFY: Face Off (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Holmes On Homes (Finale) at 8pm
HGTV: Design Star All Stars (Finale) at 9pm
Beginning September 4, LIVE! with Kelly will unveil who will be Kelly Ripa’s new co-host. Ripa has been leading the show along with 59 different guest co-hosts since the departure of the show’s longtime host Regis Philbin on November 18, 2011. LIVE! with Kelly begins a new season on September 3 and is distributed in national syndication by Disney-ABC Domestic Television and is produced by WABC-TV in New York.
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National music television network, Fuse, part of The Madison Square Garden Company, will debut new half-hour comedy Off Beat September 14 at 10p. This weekly original program hosted by comedian Mike E. Winfield and featuring Mal Hall as Winfield’s sidekick, presents over-the-top music-themed online videos and viewer-created clips. Off Beat consists of 12 episodes which will air through November. FishBowl Worldwide Media produces the show.
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Unscripted series Push Girls received a second season renewal by Sundance Channel. The series follows the lives of five women who are confined to wheelchairs. The first season finale airs on August 27 at 10p and the second season will bow in 2013.
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A new season of 19 Kids and Counting is back on TLC as of August 28 at 9p. The series revisits the Duggar family with the new season kicking off with a one-hour episode. Figure 8 Films produces the series for TLC.
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Sunday’s series premiere of Married to Jonas on E! at 10p tallied close to 1.8 million total viewers as well as 891,000 with A18-49.
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USA Network’s finale of miniseries Political Animals on Sunday attracted 2.3 million total viewers which was a bit less than the 2.6 million total viewers that tuned in for the July premiere episode.
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The 25th anniversary of Shark Week on Discovery Channel pulled in 21.4 million total viewers which topped the 2011 Shark Week that amassed 18.63 million total viewers.
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Michael J. Fox will make his series comeback on NBC, the network that ran his series Family Ties 30 years ago. Fox will star in an as yet untitled comedy series from Sony Pictures Television and Olive Bridge Entertainment. NBC gave the project a 22-episode commitment which is loosely inspired by people and events in Fox’s real life. “I’m extremely pleased to be back at NBC with a great creative team and a great show, ” said Fox. “Bob Greenblatt and all the folks at the network have given me a warm welcome home, and I’m excited to get to work.” The single-camera series will begin production this year for a fall 2013 launch. The plot has Fox playing a husband and father of three in New York City coping with family, career and challenges including Parkinson’s disease. Additional casting will be announced at a future date. Executive producers and co-creators are Will Gluck and Sam Laybourne with Gluck producing through his Sony Television-based Olive Bridge Entertainment. Olive Bridge’s Richard Schwartz will as serve as co-EP.
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Comedienne and entertainer Phyllis Diller, 95, who turned her trademark witty humor much of the time on herself, died Monday morning in Los Angeles. During the 1950s, Ms. Diller frequently performed in night clubs and appeared on television at a time when female comics were rare. Ms. Diller created her stand-up act around the persona of the frugal housewife with her offbeat dress and hair and a husband named “Fang.” Ms. Diller began her comedic career when she was close to 40, after her first husband, Sherwood Diller, urged her to give up a successful career as an advertising and radio writer. Throughout her career, Ms. Diller also was a busy mother of five children. Ms. Diller appeared in movies including “Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number” and “Eight on the Lam” with Bob Hope. In 1966-67, she starred in the ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southhampton and in 1968 she hosted a short-lived variety series, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. Stand-up comedy continued to be her true love though and she became well-known in performances for her cackling laugh and her outrageous looks that included fright wigs and shoes which deliberately made her legs look as skinny as possible. After she retired from stand-up, Ms. Diller continued to take cameo roles in movies and TV shows and pursued painting as a serious hobby. She also published an autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse in 2005. The 2006 film, Goodnight, We Love You was a documentary on her career. She also wrote two other books, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints and Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual.
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Film director and television producer, Tony Scott died on Sunday of an apparent suicide in Los Angeles. Mr. Scott was 68. He was best known as director on the 1986 film Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and he worked with Mr. Cruise again four years later on the film Days of Thunder. Mr. Scott had been currently working on a sequel film to Top Gun in development. Along with his brother, Ridley Scott, the two ran Scott Free Productions and were also currently working on a film Killing Lincoln based on the book by Bill O’Reilly. In addition to numerous television commercials, the brother’s company produced the CBS dramas Numb3rs and The Good Wife as well as a 2011 documentary about the Battle of Gettysburg for HISTORY. Mr. Scott was married to actress Donna Scott and they have twin sons.
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Emmy Award-winning actor, William Windom died August 16 at the age of 88. Mr. Windom won his Emmy for the 1970 series My World and Welcome to It based on the work of American humorist James Thurber. He later starred in CBS’ long-running crime series Murder, She Wrote playing a Maine country doctor and friend to Angela Lansbury’s character Jessica Fletcher. Mr. Windom was also the grandson of a former US Treasury secretary who served under two presidents, James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Windom’s career spanned six decades and he also appeared in many films including To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and The Detective (1968) among other titles. His TV appearances were numerous with credits including a 1967 episode of Star Trek on NBC, The Twilight Zone, The Wild Wild West, Alias Smith & Jones, Ironside, Kojak, Barney Miller, The Facts of Life, Hotel, Newhart, Murphy Brown, Providence and JAG as well as many others. Mr. Windom also starred in close to twenty Broadway plays including a 1956 revival of Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels. Mr. Windom is survived by his fifth wife, Patricia; four children; and four grandchildren. A memorial service will take place at 2p on September 15 at Theatre West in Los Angeles.
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